Hand and foot warmer



A (No Model.)

H. A. BIERLEY.

HAND AND FOOT WARMER. N. 350,342. Patented Oct. 5, 1886.

full, clear, and exact description of the invenvhaving upwardlyprojecting tubes J, may t UNITED SrATEsv PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY vA. BIERLEY, OF MANCHESTER, OHIO. i e

HAND AND FooT WARMER.

ZBPECEFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,342, dated October 5, 1886.

Application filed Octobcrl, ISSS.

To all whom it may concern,.-

Beit known that l, HENRY A. BIERLEY, a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of lvfanchester, in the county of Adams and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand and Foot lVarmers; and Ido hereby declare that thefollowing is a tion, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this speciiication, and in which- Figure l is a perspective View of my improved warming-pan. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing it used as ahand and foot warmer. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical seet-ionof the same, and Fig. et is atransverse section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

My invention has relation to warming-pans; and it consists in theimproved construction and combination of parts of a warming-pan which may be used as a hand and foot warmer, as a steam-table for keeping dishes hot when serving sick persons, as a drier for drying fluids which mayhave been spilled upontextile fabrics, and for any other purposes where it is desired to apply heat and to keep an objectA heated for a space of time, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

ln the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates an elliptical sheet-metal box or casing, having at its smallest diameter a flue or duct, B, closed at one end and provided with a sliding door, C, at its other end. This easing may be iilled with hotwater through one of two necks, D D, projecting from the top of the easing, and having perforated diaphragms E within them and caps F iitting upon them, said caps being preferably screw-caps fitting upon threads upon the necks, and a heated brick or block of metal may be placed into the iluc or transverse chamber B, serving to keep the waterihot. The easing is preferably provided at its top with a handle, G, fortransporting it, and the top has two or more recesses or depressions, H, into which plates or dishes may rest without sliding vto the sides. The threaded necks project usually upon the long axis of the casing, and threaded caps I,

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upon' the threaded necks when the apparatus Vhen the apparatus is used asa hand and foot warmer, the casing is filled with hot water, a red-hot brick or block of metal is inserted into the-transverse chamber, and the .tubes and the bail-shaped tube is placed in position.` The steam will now pass up through the upright tubes, so that by graspingthe horizontal portion of the bail-shaped tube the hand may be warmed, and the said tube may be slid up or down upon the upright` tubes, so that it may be within convenient reach for the person using it, who at the same time may keep his or her feet upon the casing and keep them warm.

'When the apparatusis to be used as a cour mon warming-pan, the upright tubes and the bail-shaped tube are removed, and the screwcaps are placed over the necks, when the pan may be placed into a bed to warm the same, or it may be placed over a damp spot or place where any. fluid has been spilled, when it may dry it by the heat; or the pan-may be used as a steam-table for the purpose of keeping plates hot, when plates or dishes may be placed into the recesses or depressions in the top of the casing and be prevented from sliding by resting in the rccesses,while they at the same time are kepthot. The pan, being thus placed upon vthe bed with dishes upon it to serve as a table for au invalid,will, besides keeping the dishes warm, also keep the patient warm while moving to 'reach the several dishes, and thus `prevent thel patient from taking cold while he or she is moving, and thus Vunable to keep as well lcovered as when keeping perfectly still. When it is onlydesired to keep the pan heated for a short while, it is only used lled with hot water, without the heated brick or block yof metal 5 but when it isdesired to keepthe pan warm. for a considerable time the heated brick or block of iron is placed into its transverse chamber, where it will keep the water IOO hot, retaining the heat for :L long time, and vessel for the reception of :t Warming medigiving it off gradually to the Water. In this um, having two openings in its top, a neck se 15 manner a person may7 While driving in very cured in each opening, :t tube secured in each cold weather, have the pan placed in the botneck, and a bailshaped tube upon said two 5 tom of the vehicle and keep his feet upon it, tubes, as shown and described.

and when the hands get cold the bail-shaped In testimony that I claim the foregoing as tube may be grasped, and the said tube so admy own I have hereunto affixed my signature 2o justed that it will be Within convenient reach, in presence o two witnesses.

being either slid u a or down. I .-T l, ,l Y, i r lo Havingthusd'esribedniyinvention,I claim HPhl A Luhm and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the "Witnesses: 'United Statesn LoUrs ABA d onli,

The combination, in a foot-warmer, ol' a AUGUST lnTERsoN. 

